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All About Bondan Prakoso
Bondan Prakoso
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Bondan
Prakoso
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Born
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Occupations
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Instruments
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Vocals,
bass guitar, guitar, Drum, Keyboard
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Years
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1988 -
present
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Bondan
Prakoso (born May
8, 1982) is an Indonesian singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, and record
producer. He is known as the former bassist of rock band Funky Kopral
(1999–2003) and the lead singer of the rap rock collaboration band, Bondan
Prakoso & Fade 2 Black (2005–present). He has won several awards from
Indonesian Music Awards with both Funky Kopral and his collaboration band,
Bondan Prakoso & Fade 2 Black.
Biography
Early life
Bondan
Prakoso was born on May 8, 1982. He is the second child of three children.
Since 8 years old, Bondan had already been exposed to the music industry as a
child singer. He emerged as a famous young popstar in early 90's. Bondan
released 8 albums in 1988-1995.
Funky Kopral
In the late
90's, Bondan and his friends, Anggara Mulia (Angga), Bobbi Wibowo (Robbi),
Kristo Perwira, and Arlonsy Miraldi (Onci), formed a rock band called Funky
Kopral. Together, they released three albums in 1999-2003 with Universal Music record
label. In 2002, Iman Taufik Rachman (Iman) come and replaced Onci as the
guitarist. Eventually, the band broke up in late 2003. Years later, Funky
Kopral has reformed, but with only a few remained from the original formation.
The others had formed or joined other bands, such as: Iman with J-Rocks, and
Bondan with his collaboration, Bondan Prakoso & Fade 2 Black.
Bondan Prakoso & Fade 2 Black
This is
music project collaboration between a musician, named Bondan Prakoso and a Rap hiphop group, Fade2Black. The members are Tito
a.k.a. Titz, Ari a.k.a. Santoz,
Eza a.k.a. Lezzano.
In the early
2002, Bondan Prakoso who is also well known by public as a great talented bass
player, who was also a former bass player in a Funk Stream band called Funky Kopral,
and Tito a.k.a. Titz who is known as a rapper and has group called Fade2Black,
are often share their thoughts and idea to each others about music. They both
came from different backgrounds of music, Bondan Prakoso plays more likely in
Funk and Rock music and Titz in Rap/Hiphop. These 2 campus mates from Faculty
of Culture and Humaniora, deepin' in Dutch literature, are college friends on
University of Indonesia, Depok.
By the late
2003, because of the needs and his desire in acknowledging music are getting
more mature, deeper and freedom in creating this art, Bondan Prakoso has
decided to go further as he decided to retired from their former band, Funky
Kopral.
2004 was the
year where Bondan came up with an idea to merge a different kind of musics and
combine them in a new package form of music, as in that mid year, he has asked
Titz to join in a music project. Titz thought that it will be more strong with
his group, Fade2Black in joining in.
The
situation is getting more varieties and more colorfull as Bondan approved to
involve this Hiphop group from Bogor, Fade2Black, in this project. Instead of
only 1 rapper, this music project is combining 3 rappers, Tito a.k.a. Titz, Ari
a.k.a. Santoz and Eza a.k.a. Lezano.
By the late
2004, they were starting to go further with this project and created various
kind of music with the touch of Rap, Rock, Funk as the elements. Bondan Prakoso
is in-charge for the music instruments, looping, and arranging, while
Fade2Black get more close to the lyrics.
The process
took only 4 months to complete and in August 2005, their 1st album with the
title "RESPECT" released under the Sony BMG Music Indonesia. Since
then, the album which contains not only 1 type of music, but many types of
musics with rap as the basic vocal by TITZ, SANTOZ and LEZANO, while in other
songs also joined BONDAN PRAKOSO on vocal in singing.
With this
piece of arts, they managed to received contribution and awards, such as:
MTv Indonesia Exclusive artist in
November, 2005 - MTv Advance Warning award in November, 2005 - Indonesian Music
Award (AMI) 2006, as the best Rap album production.
And in 2008,
they were ready to break the Indonesian Music Industry with their more hard,
impulsive, innovative forms of music. With their 2nd album, named
"UNITY", and with their breakthrough single hit, KERONCONG PROTOL.
With this
new debut from their second album, they've won the 2008 Indonesian Music Award
(AMI) for the second time in a row for the best Rap album Production.
In 2010,
they're back with their 3rd album, "FOR ALL". Hitting back the local
music industry with the hits single 'Ya Sudahlah'.
Their 3rd
album, "FOR ALL" gave them more chances to reach more to the TOP of
Indonesian music industry. Along with their hits single "Ya
Sudahlah", Bondan Prakoso & Fade2Black succeed on gaining more eyes
from the public over their existence by receiving 4x Platinum Award for RBT
(Ring Back Tone) download and 5 times on the Twitter Trending Topics. With that
also, they have won several local awards, such as:
Most popular song 2011 on Anugerah Music TerDahsyat 2011 (local TV music
program awards), "Ya Sudahlah".
Most popular Artis/Grup R&B/Rap/Dance on Indosat Award 2011.
Most popular R&B/Rap/Dance song on Indosat Awards 2011, "Kita
Slamanya".
On their 3rd album, they're already launching 3 singles, "Ya
Sudahlah", "Kita Slamanya" and their most latest single
"Tetap Semangat".
Now, on 2012, they are developing their skills and creativity on finishing
their 4th album.
Discography
Studio Albums
Funky Kopral
- 1999: Funchopat
- 2000: Funkadelic Rhythm and Distortion
- 2003: Misteri Cinta
Bondan
Prakoso & Fade 2 Black
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